Completed Research Projects
The members of the iA research team were highly motivated and at various stages of their scientific career. PostDocs, doctoral students and research assistants were committed to their research work for national research projects conducted by organizations such as the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) and mandates from the industry. Internationally, the Chair of Information Architecture was involved in EU research projects and worked closely with partner universities from all over the world. Publications appeared regularly, leading to participation in international conferences to share knowledge and insights way beyond Switzerland’s borders.
Our Energy
Our Energy is a project with the goal to analyse the impact of self-consumption of electricity produced by a simulated photovoltaic system in Swiss households.
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ESUM
ESUM - Analysing trade-offs between the energy and social performance of urban morphologies
Urban planning decisions usually have long-term implications that affect both the energy performance, as well as people\'s experience [...]
URBAN AUTOPOIESIS
Towards Adaptive Future Cities
A city, defined as a unity of inhabitants with their environment and showing self-creating and self-maintaining properties, can be considered as an autopoietic system if we take [...]
FLOATING CITIES
Addressing high demand for new public urban spaces by exploring reclaimed water areas
Urban water spaces, lakes and rivers have an impact on the image of the city and have [...]
CITIZEN DESIGN SCIENCE
A combination of Citizen Science and Design Science employing bottom up flow of data and information to improve the planning and functioning of a city.
The last decades [...]
USER-DRIVEN DESIGN FOR FUTURE CITIES: CITIZEN URBAN LAB
In the last years, the smart technologies and lifestyle have gained new challenges in working, living and dwelling. On the other hand, we face the rapid trend of growing cities [...]
MACHINE LEARNING AND URBAN IDENTITY
Unsupervised machine learning approach to exploring important features of urban identity from the quality of public spaces.
Public spaces play an important role in the processes of formation, generation and change [...]
ADvISE
Data analysis for understanding the impact of urban design on social performance of a city (ADvISE)
Urban planning decisions greatly affect the life in cities in many perspectives: the [...]
KIC-Transition
Integrated and interactive planning system for monitoring, evaluating and designing cities (link to internal post
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The project aimed to develop a framework for visualization of urban analysis and planning scenarios [...]
Computational Planning Synthesis
Computational Planning Synthesis (CPS)
Emerging technologies for future urban planning
When working on urban planning projects there are usually multiple aspects to consider. Often these aspects are contradictory [...]
Urban Mutations Platform
UMP - Urban Mutations Platform
An interactive platform for the identification of catalysing mutations in city generation, assembly and development
In this project we developed a comprehensive urban [...]
SUA – Climate KIC
Smart Urban Adapt - Helping cities transition to a low carbon future
The city of tomorrow has to use fewer resources and to provide better living qualities. Therefore SMART URBAN [...]
SUPat – NFP65
Traditional planning methods for urban systems reach their limits, as continuous [...]
KTI – Visual Manager
In this research project, which lasted 18 months, we developed a framework and a related Multi-Touch-Software for the visual management of risks and strategies. The applied research project was done [...]
KTI – City planning tool
Computer-assisted Interactive Planning of Energy- and CO2-Efficient Cities
This Project was a collaboration between the ETH Zurich and Esri Procedural AG. The goal was to develop a software system that [...]
VALUE LAB
COLLABORATION IN SPACE
We implemented a research lab - the Value Lab, a new collaboration environment for virtual design and planning of architecture. It combined the use of complimentary views on [...]
FUTURE CITY DESIGNER
TABLETOP INTERACTION
In cooperative planning it is very challenging to establish a shared understanding among the involved partners. If a group of people develops a visual representation in collaboration, they will [...]
REPLAY
THE ETH MULTIMEDIA PORTAL SYSTEM
With REPLAY the Multimedia Services of ETH Zurich in cooperation with the Chair for Information Architecture developed a system for the holistic processing of multimedia content. [...]